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Sell it, the chances of getting something worthwhile are too slim.
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Thorin is fine, you just need to get used to his style. Sounds like its your first time watching so being annoyed with him is to be expected, but he is good at his job and the scene needs people like him so we don't end up like LoL!
His youtube channel is really informative: https://www.youtube.com/user/Thooorin/videos
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Sell chances of getting the most expensive skin is silly, £12 for crate or 0.12p for a skin to sell.
Very enjoyable majors that, G2 performed admirably! definitely got a new fan here Rains 1v5 ace on cache was sick and Jakem proved himself tenfold mikelele clutched like a king fox actually hit most shots and dennis was mr reliable shame they just didn't quite make the cut!
NV looked so strong in that final though.
Oh and I got my 1st ever drop after 4 majors of nothing, overpass aswell so was a easy 5er there.
Gonna be on the next couple of days if anybody is about
NV looked so strong in that final though.
Oh and I got my 1st ever drop after 4 majors of nothing, overpass aswell so was a easy 5er there.
Gonna be on the next couple of days if anybody is about
He's not really fine though is he? Why do you think he's banned from ESL, go read his comments on Poland.
Also he left a very stupid comment on a thread some guy made about his GF having seizures and they found out she had tumours in her kidneys.
I don't know if it's autism or something but the guy has no emotions and no filter on what he says.
I've watched for a while now but this was first weekend I had very little planned so I may have just overdosed on him having watched 2 and a half days worth LOL.
Either way, he's not for me.
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Thoorin is a god
It's a shame he made those ridiculous comments about Poland that were just so over the top there was no way to take them as a joke :|
He does have some very good knowledge about the CS:GO scene and often brings up good points about the 1.6 players. He makes some decent video content although they often go on a too long, I suspect he is a narcissist.
"suspect"
he's definitely one
Richard lewis is superb he does hold thorin back a little too but it's one of those.
We definitely need something that stops it being a generic and sickly as LOL but the dreamhack london was an example of a bit too much thorin and not enough proffesionalism
he's definitely one
Richard lewis is superb he does hold thorin back a little too but it's one of those.
We definitely need something that stops it being a generic and sickly as LOL but the dreamhack london was an example of a bit too much thorin and not enough proffesionalism
If that 11/12 year old naturally has a good hand to eye co-ordination, you could probably speed up their potential with very focused training. A good example would be Sumail from Dota 2, look at this guy, he's like 15 playing for the best team in the world. Natural talent will shine through and break age barriers
Some people will have a natural talent for games, this is often very high reflexes/hard to eye co-ordination < That's the 2 primary requirements. If they have these talents, then yes they will probably catch on to a FPS very quickly.
If you focus your training you definitely can improve to GE level. You could probably get there two ways:
Form a 5 stack and crush those playing public match making with some organised tactics/positions. The match making isn't like dota2, 5 stacks can face 3/2 2/2/1 etc. The other team will have no tactics or very, very basic split A or B strats.
If you are wanting to get to GE solo queue, then the fastest way will be to improve your aim, work on your muscle memory of the spray patterns for the AK/M4. Improving your aim will probably see the most dramatic climb in skill. The fact you are LE level currently definitely means you have potential to climb but you need to mentally believe you can reach GE.
There is a large list of different talents, not just those skills required to be good at CS.
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His Comments. Contains light swearing and some borderline racist remarks (obviously....)
I'm not going to question whether he is right or wrong in what he said, but I fail to see how people think less about him because of his comments.
A few months ago, when the Je Suis CHarlie thing happened, everybody kept mentioned that same quote "Je Suis Charlie." The aim of that slogan is that people have unlimited freedom of speech and they are free to speak about whatever they want. During the French tragedy, the issue was religion, and everybody felt like they are free to take the **** out of a religion. On the other hand, it looks like people can not say certain things about countries.
His comments might not have been politically correct, but I'm not sure why people keep looking down on him so much. Everybody has those few ideas which are largely unpopular, he doesn't need to be publically crucified for speaking his mind (irrelevant if he is right or wrong).
He is free to speak his mind, and his employers are free to distance themselves from such pathetic views
This was a pretty severe attack on Poland/The Polish people that far surpassed "banter"
This quote from ESL is completely justified and doesn't stop Thorin making his own little blog video to continue his tirade on Poland.
"ESL does not stand by or tolerate acts of racism, xenophobia or other forms of discrimination and does not wish to be associated or employ those who make any such comments. We are deeply upset that a long time member of the esports community would display such ignorance and make highly inappropriate comments about an entire nation.
Thorin’s tirade has offended not only the live audience of the show he was hired to work on, but the entire Polish production team that he was going to be a part of.
This was a pretty severe attack on Poland/The Polish people that far surpassed "banter"
This quote from ESL is completely justified and doesn't stop Thorin making his own little blog video to continue his tirade on Poland.
"ESL does not stand by or tolerate acts of racism, xenophobia or other forms of discrimination and does not wish to be associated or employ those who make any such comments. We are deeply upset that a long time member of the esports community would display such ignorance and make highly inappropriate comments about an entire nation.
Thorin’s tirade has offended not only the live audience of the show he was hired to work on, but the entire Polish production team that he was going to be a part of.
Except with Thorin it's not just a few ideas. He seems to get a thrill out of kicking people when they are already down. Like I said above he might genuinely have a problem because he regularly stands there stone faced just making passive aggressive comments and not thinking before he speaks. I admire people who speak their mind but there's a difference between doing it for a purpose and doing it just to annoy people. It's extremely unprofessional a lot of the time.
I am not questioning his analysis on CSGO, he regularly gets things spot on, I just wish he'd chill out a bit with looking for a jab at every possible moment.